2.2. The Houston Recap Show

Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

Chris McClung

Running, Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Apollo 13 may have had a problem, but the Houston Marathon and Half Marathon DOES NOT. What a freaking amazing race with so many implications for the Olympic Marathon Trials!

Des was on the call in the booth, and Kara was following along from home. In this episode, they recap it all, discussing the men's and women's races for both distances.

This race had a little bit of everything with a smokin' time from a late entrant, a new American record in the half, the first L in history for Father Time, plus a number of Olympic qualifying ramifications. Houston is flat and fast, and the race always delivers.

Des and Kara also discuss why an athlete might choose to do a race like this in the build-up to the Trials and what it might mean (or not) for their preparation. Plus, we get an update on Des's training and why she chose to be in the booth vs. on the start line for this one.

Stay until the end for the first-ever Olipop top 5 with a juicy, double teaser from Kara about fun things to come. Pop an Olipop and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:10.0	What's up everybody?
0:10.0	What's up everybody?
0:12.0	Welcome to another episode of nobody asked us,
0:15.0	Littez and Kara, presented by TCS.
0:18.0	We are...
0:20.0	I got an applause for that.
0:22.0	All right, all right, right, we're feeling good.
0:24.2	We are just less than three weeks out for the Olympic trials.
0:28.4	If you're watching, you'll see a very special person
0:31.4	on does his shoulder. You just blocked it. There. And yeah, so Des is in Orlando. She'll tell us a little bit about that. But Des, we're going to talk about the Houston Marathon
0:43.1	because it was yesterday, but you got from Houston to Florida,
0:48.1	right?
0:49.4	I did.
0:50.4	I made it.
0:51.4	This is like just a crazy travel experience. Not great for training, not great for
0:57.5	morale, picked up a little cold. But we got from Traverse City to Detroit in a day.
1:05.3	Spend a night at the Detroit Wingate.
1:09.9	Not quite a Hojo, but not quite a Westin, somewhere somewhere in the middle better than an airport floor and then
1:16.4	went from Detroit to Houston got in in the, called the race first thing in the morning, got a little shakeout run in,
1:28.0	got on a plane in Houston, went to Atlanta, went from Atlanta to Orlando,
1:33.3	watched the Lions game in the airport,
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